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This article purports to be talking about math but then goes off down some insular functional programming rabbit hole. For what it's worth, I can easily accept
by ForHackernews 7y ago
This article purports to be talking about math but then goes off down some insular functional programming rabbit hole.
For what it's worth, I can easily accept that Haskell programmers' career prospects will not be altered one whit by improvements in optimisation and automation...
P.S. Haskell is not math: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1017/S0956796808007004 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1017/S0956796808007004 https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Sieve-JFP.pdf https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Sieve-JFP.pdf
- dddbbb 7y agoThe paper you linked shows that one Haskell implementation does not exactly correspond to a specific algorithm, then gives an alternative definition which does correspond. What does that have to do with the statement 'Haskell is not math'?
- ForHackernews 7y agoIt's a salient example of functional programming pretending to demonstrate an elegant expression of pure mathematics in code, while actually being nothing of the sort.